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restraint.
See
judicial restraint

Reynolds, Glenn Harlan,
213

Reynolds v. Sims,
89

Roberts, John

and 2012 health care cases,
4
–6,
8
,
75
,
181
–6,
222
–4,
226
–8,
233
–6,
238
–9

and
Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission,
223

confirmation of,
103
–5

and judicial restraint,
4
–6,
222
–3,
228
,
236

and
McDonald v. City of Chicago,
200
,
202

Roberts, Owen,
64
–5,
73
–5

Roe v. Wade,
5
,
79
,
99
,
105
–6,
170
,
194
,
222

Roosevelt, Franklin Delano,
6
,
8
,
52
,
62
,
64
–5,
67
–73,
82
,
86
,
232
.
See also
New Deal

Roosevelt, Theodore,
2
,
53
–4,
79
,
84

Rosen, Jeffrey,
233
–4

Rosenthal, Charles A.,
126

Roy, Joseph E.,
22

Sarah Farms,
134

Saulsbury, Willard,
24
–5

Scalia, Antonin

and 2012 health care cases,
3
,
220
,
227
–9,
239

and
D.C. v. Heller,
170
,
182
,
184
,
188
–9,
191
–2

debate with Epstein (1984 Cato conference),
119
–21

and Federalist Society,
104
–5

and
Gonzales v. Raich,
206

and
Kelo v. City of New London,
160
,
163

Lawrence v. Texas,
119
–21,
126
–31

Matter of Interpretation, A,
192
–3

and
McDonald v. City of Chicago,
193
–4,
196
,
200
–2

Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States,
66
–70,
72

Second Amendment,
169
–203,
238

individual/collective-right interpretation,
171
–3

text of,
171

Second Amendment cases

District of Columbia v. Heller,
169
–70,
173
–4,
181
–93,
196
–7,
199
–202,
234

McDonald v. City of Chicago,
189
–91,
193
–203,
238

Seegars v. Ashcroft,
178

United States v. Cruikshank,
191
–2

United States v. Emerson,
171
–3,
176

Second Amendment Foundation (SAF),
190

Seegars v. Ashcroft,
178

segregation.
See
civil rights cases

sexual orientation cases

Bowers v. Hardwick,
114
–17,
128

Lawrence v. Texas,
115
–17,
121
,
124
–31

Shapiro, Ilya,
209

Siegan, Bernard,
110
–14

Economic Liberties and the Constitution,
111

Land Use without Zoning,
111

Sigale, David,
192

Simpson, Steve,
171
,
173

Slaughter-House Cases
(1873),
13
–15,
29
–33,
37
,
39
,
47
,
57
,
142
,
144
,
194
–8,
200
–1,
204

slavery

abolitionism and abolitionists,
11
–13,
17
–20,
25
–6,
58
,
60
,
202

and Black Codes,
20
–3,
25
–7,
31
,
202
–3

Dred Scott v. Sandford,
19
–20,
24
,
60
,
70

Fugitive Slave Act of 1850,
19

Thirteenth Amendment,
20

Smith, Adam,
15
–16,
18

Wealth of Nations, The,
15
–16

Smith, Paul M.,
125
–6

Sotomayor, Sonia,
167
,
225

Souter, David,
160
,
165

Spencer, Herbert:
Social Statics,
49
–50

stare decisis,
167
,
200
,
223

Stewart, Nathaniel,
218

Stone, Harlan Fiske,
68
,
74
,
83

Storey, Moorfield,
57
–60,
84

substantive due process,
33
,
98
–100,
113
,
115
,
120
,
190
,
193
–4,
196
–7,
199
–203,
227

Sumner, Charles,
16
,
58

Supreme Court.
See
U.S. Supreme Court

Sutherland, George,
63
–4,
73
–4

Sutton, Jeffrey,
220

Taalib-Din Abdul Uqdah v. District of Columbia,
145

Taft, William Howard,
73

Takings Clause (Fifth Amendment),
121
–2,
150
–1,
156
,
160
,
162
–3,
165

Thayer, James Bradley,
52

Thirteenth Amendment,
20

Thomas, Clarence,
105
,
122
–3,
142
–3,
165
–6,
202
–4,
207
,
239

Thomas More Law Center,
219

Thurgood Marshall Federal Judicial Center,
175

Tileston v. Ullman,
91

Tribe, Laurence,
172

Trump, Donald,
151
–2,
154

Tugwell, Rexford,
69

United States v. Butler,
71

United States v. Carolene Products Co.,
80
–1,
130
,
135

Footnote Four,
83
,
86
,
90
,
92
–3,
111
,
150
–1,
166

United States v. Comstock,
222

United States v. Cruikshank,
191
–2

United States v. Emerson,
171
–3,
176

United States v. Lopez,
212
–14,
217
,
239

United States v. Morrison,
214
,
217
,
239

Uqdah, Taalib-Din Abdul,
145

U.S. Constitution,
12
–16

Commerce Clause,
67
–8,
70
,
75
–6,
205
–18,
224
–39

See also individual amendments;
Bill of Rights

U.S. Court of Appeals,
28
,
57

and “circuit split,”
149

District of Columbia Circuit,
77
,
109
,
119
,
133
,
173
,
179
–80,
184
,
189
,
220

Eleventh Circuit,
3
,
219
–20,
227

Fifth Circuit,
171
–3,
212
,
238

Fourth Circuit,
169
,
220

Ninth Circuit,
33
,
37
–8

and “riding circuit,”
37

Seventh Circuit,
197
,
201

Sixth Circuit,
147
,
149
,
220

Tenth Circuit,
148
–9

U.S. Supreme Court.
See individual cases and justices

Van Devanter, Willis,
72
–3

Verrilli, Donald,
4
,
209
,
224
–32

Vietnam War,
137

Villard, Oswald Garrison,
60

Vinson, Roger,
219
,
221

Violence Against Women Act,
214
,
239

von Breichenruchardt, Dane,
179

Wagner, Robert,
75

Wagner Act,
74
–5

Waite, Morrison,
36

Warley, William,
59
.
See also Buchanan v. Warley

Warren, Earl,
80
,
84
,
88
–9,
92

Warren Court,
85
–6,
108
,
117

Washington, Bushrod,
28
,
31

Washington Legal Foundation,
106

Waters, Maxine,
166

Weigel, Dave,
221

West Coast Hotel Co. v. Parrish,
93

West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette,
87
–8

Wheeler, Burton K.,
72

White, Byron,
92
,
114
–15

“White Monday” (March 29, 1937), 74

Wickard v. Filburn,
206
,
211
–12,
214

Wilkinson, J. Harvie, III,
169
–70

Will, George,
233

Williams, Walter:
The State against Blacks,
143

Williamson v. Lee Optical Inc.,
82
,
135

Wilson, Woodrow,
54
–5,
63
,
70

Congressional Government,
70

World War I,
44
,
54
–5,
127

World War II,
110

Yale Law School,
96
,
103
–4,
106
,
237

About the Author

Damon Root
is senior editor at
Reason
magazine and Reason.com. In 2012 he spearheaded
Reason
's multi-platform coverage of the legal challenge to President Obama's health care law. He has been featured on the Fox Business Channel, Sirius Satellite Radio, the 92nd Street Y's “Campaign for the American Conversation,” and numerous radio stations around the country.

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